If the football incentives presented by this Thursday’s duel in the Gran Canaria Stadium enter here OUT Las Palmas and the Barça, there will also be a hint of morbidity. He will be on the local bench, where he will sit Xavi García Pimienta a man with Barça DNA.
Next to Michelis one of the fashionable technicians in LaLiga EA Sports. The Catalan is surprising with the performance he is getting against a recently promoted team like Las Palmas. Especially because of his game, which he inevitably reminds of what the Barça tries to do, but often fails.
Pepper He appeared on more than one occasion to take charge of the Barça first team. In fact, after the dismissal of Quique Setienwas one of the options that were on the table, but finally they opted for Ronald Koeman.
Pepper knows well Can Barça. Not only as a coach, but he also came to the Barça first team after having gone through all the categories of youth football from youth level.
Despite being a culé to the core, his departure from the Catalan entity was not particularly kind. John Laporta He made the decision to fire him shortly after arriving at the club in his second stage as president. He drew attention to the reasons that the president argued at the time. “We didn’t see the Barça B integrated with the line of grassroots football,” he explained The door in the Assembly of Committers.
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The response of Garcia Pimienta He hinted that the Barça leader was not being entirely sincere. “These words show me that I had no excuses, I just wanted to put their own people, which was the reason they gave me. Telling me that I was not following the line of grassroots football… is quite the opposite. In 2018 when I go up to the Barça B It is when you return to the origin. In previous years, top squads had been formed without options for players to reach the first team. All the games I have coached Barçain it B, youth, cadets… we have played with the 4-3-3, faithful to the style. I have believed in the people at home and the proof is in all the players who have debuted in the first team. Almost everyone he had was a first team profile. They told me that thanks for everything, for the behavior and for these years, but that they wanted to put their people,” said the coach in Giants. The one chosen to take over, Sergi Barjuanlasted one season in office.
In January 2022, six months after being fired from the Catalan entity, Garcia Pimienta signed for the OUT Las Palmas. In his first year he was on the verge of promotion to Firstafter falling into the playoff with the Tenerife. The following year he achieved it directly. In his first year in the elite, the coach is turning out to be one of the revelations of the course.
2024-01-03 05:01:40
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